I still remember when I picked up my first copy of Hitch, the official zine of Oklahoma City; it was in the much-missed Bollinger’s Books, where I spent to good lot of time and money in the early...
I know that to the forcefully ironic it might seem a little melodramatic to admit, but as the richly composed music of Tchaikovsky swelled—music that I must have heard a million times in television...
I met Ari Lehman a few years ago at Texas Frightmare and was kind of amazed that he’s managed to make a lifelong career out of a few brief seconds on-screen as the original Jason Voorhees in the...
By my sophomore semester at the Classen School of Advanced Studies, I had begun to make a name for myself locally with the publication of my self-produced magazine – Damaged. It had raised such a...
Rogelio Almeida, best known for his 2009 film Yveete—the first Spanish-language film to win the Grand Jury Award at DeadCenter—can usually be found behind the camera, working on a new film. But...
Welcome back to the third and final installment of the Top 25 OKC TV News Blunders of the 2010s! With what seemed like hundreds of blunders, bloopers and gaffes just from Dean Blevins alone...
Welcome back to TLO’s review of the top TV news blunders of the 2010s! In part two, we dive a little bit deeper into nutty and scandalous antics of our beloved local media personalities. Come for...
They say be careful what you put on the internet, because it will be around forever. Which is why I am glad that YouTube and social media really became a *thing* long after I left the awkward stages...
When it originally opened in 1982, the Yukon 5 Cinema was the biggest thing to happen to the rural outskirt, at least until they unveiled Garth Brooks Boulevard years later; that’s the street...
Over the past few weeks, to many regular moviegoers across the metroplex, I seem to have become the bearer of bad celluloid after incessantly reporting on the handful of various local cinemas that...
America is in an absolute state of turmoil. Undocumented immigrants are being indefinitely detained, it’s punishable with jail time to protest pipelines, and heavy-duty guns are killing our...
Oklahoma City artists really have no idea just how good they have it. At the most, many local artists will be lambasted by nosy social media obsessives for painting a dumb octopus on a public wall...
When I made the long journey back to Oklahoma City a few years ago, as soon as I was somewhat within the city limits, I immediately turned the radio dial to 107.7 KRXO for some of that...
Oklahoma has many filmmakers; let me rephrase that: Oklahoma has many people that talk about making a film, but never do. Al Mertens, however…he was never one of those guys. I originally met him a...
On Monday evening, after finishing up some work in our Bricktown Digital Media Studio, I waltzed over to Fuzzy’s Tacos by Harkin’s to get my usual to-go order – two brisket and one...
Now this closure personally hurts me and my lonely movie-going proclivities. No sooner than I had heard and written about the sad shuttering of the NorthPark Mall discount theatre, as I was going to...
Anytime I’ve been to the movie theatre at NorthPark Mall, in every single one of its many incarnations, it has never really been all that busy. Many times, I’d be in a theatre alone with just my...
Having recently closed this year’s very successful Tenth Annual Native American New Play Festival, the newly formed Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company are more than ready to produce not only plays...
Kevin Stitt’s only been in office for six months, but that hasn’t stopped the Norman Transcript – which is hiring a new editor – to eagerly proclaim Gov. Stitt’s first year...
The saga of Meg Alexander and Mitch English has taken another weird turn. A few weeks after he was unceremoniously escorted out of the KOKH Fox 25 offices, Mitch English turned up in Florida as...
During the 1980s and 1990s, OKC was deluged with numerous memorable commercials—many of which are still unparalleled today—from Tall Paul Auto Insurance to the Credit Jewelers cowboy. When I...
‘ On Sunday morning, while you were hopefully sleeping, failed politician turned political pundit Kirk Humphreys quietly announced he is stepping away from KFOR’s Flashpoint – the...
Around this time last year, God and the Devil decided to have a cinematic battle for my soul, as I lay in a hospital bed, near to death and clinging to life. The worst part of it all, however, is...
If you’re anything like me – and let’s hope you’re not – this has been one “blah” of a week. I don’t know if it’s the Memorial holiday hangover, PTSD...
Another failed Oklahoman experiment is being put out to pasture. Yesterday morning, while its few remaining print subscriptions were being delivered to grandparents and bagel shops all over the...
